Olga Kochetova

Olga Kochetova

Senior Penetration Testing Specialist at Kaspersky Lab

Olga is interested in how various devices interact with cash or plastic cards. She is a senior specialist for the penetration testing team at Kaspersky Lab. Olga has authored multiple articles and webinars about ATM security. She is also the author of advisories about various vulnerabilities for major ATM vendors and has been a speaker at international conferences, including Black Hat Europe, Hack in Paris, Positive Hack Days, Security Analyst Summit, Nuit Du Hack, HITB GSEC, Chaos Communication Congress and others.

ATM: every day trouble

ATM is a perfect target for criminals. Successful attack gives them real cash, instead of bytes and bits on accounts in Panama. When people spend thousands of dollars (not Zimbabwe dollars, US ones) in shopping malls, attacker get millions from ATMs at the same places. When bankers read financial ratings, hackers clean out their banks. In our presentation, we will cover topics on how to create botnet from ATM network, that will gather all card data, network attacks specific to ATMs connection to processing centers, direct control of the ATM software. PS: This overview of the security issues in cash machines is not intended as a hacking guide.